[ecrea] CFP: Family and the Media (MCP Journal)

Call for Submissions:
“Family and the Media: Cultural Politics and Public Narratives”
Special June 2019 Issue of
  The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
edited by Andrea Carosso, Tetiana Havlin and Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Deadline for submission of abstracts (500 words, add 200 words bio) or, 
if possible, full articles (8,000 words): June 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2018
Final deadline for submission of full article: October 30, 2018
All articles undergo a double blind peer review process.

Family as a form of social coexistence is widespread in political, 
cultural and media debates; cultural politics with respect to family can 
stir elections, fill media content, sell products and (re)construct 
socio-cultural and -political discourses. The presentation of families 
in the media is contextual, culturally encoded and socially determined 
in accordance with or opposition to predominant cultural politics and 
political ideologies.

The International Journal of Media and Culture (The IJMCP) invites 
contributions to the June 2019 special issue dedicated to “Family and 
the Media: Cultural Politics and Public Narratives.” The focus of this 
issue is on the analysis of (re)representations of family matters in 
diverse media. We ask: How and with which effect are family/families 
constructed/reflected in cultural politics and public narratives, in 
media as diverse as TV-series and film, (print) journalism and 
photography, blogs and microblogs (Twitter), social media apps (Snapchat 
or Instagram), radio and podcasts, or computer games? How do these media 
narratives construct, shape and/or influence public (political) discourses?

We employ a very broad understanding of “family” – one that includes yet 
goes well beyond the culturally and discursively enshrined “nuclear 
family” paradigm: e.g. heteronormative as well as homonormative 
families, pluripaternal and monopaternal families, patchwork networks, 
“dysfunctional” families; families based on genetic bonds or emotional 
belonging. We invite comparative transcultural perspectives.

Please address queries and submissions no later than June 15, 2018 to
(andrea.carosso /at/ unito.it) <mailto:(andrea.carosso /at/ unito.it)>, 
(havlin /at/ soziologie.uni-siegen.de) <mailto:(havlin /at/ soziologie.uni-siegen.de)> 
and (zehelein /at/ em.uni-frankfurt.de) <mailto:(zehelein /at/ em.uni-frankfurt.de)>.


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